lister

See also: Lister

English

Etymology 1

Noun

lister (plural listers)

1. Alternative form of leister (“fish spear”).

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

English list

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English lister

From list + -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

lister (plural listers)

1. One who, or that which, lists or produces a listing.

   Synonym: listmaker

   Antonym: listee

   • 1984, John C. Nash, Effective scientific problem solving with small computers, page 113:

     A good program lister is helpful here, since many language processors allow multi-statement lines. For BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, and similar languages, the lister can split multi-statement lines, ensure there are blanks between keywords […]

2. A person or organisation that creates or maintains lists.

   Synonym: listmaker

   Antonym: listee

3. (birdwatching) A birdwatcher who keeps track of birds using different checklists.

Derived terms

• nonlister

Related terms

• A-lister
• B-lister
• C-lister
• List 99
• List X
• Z-lister

Etymology 3

Compare list (“a strip, border”), probably applied to the furrow or the ridge of earth along the furrow.

Noun

lister (plural listers)

1. A double-mouldboard plough that throws a deep furrow and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.

Translations

A double-mouldboard plough

• Bulgarian: листер m (lister)

Anagrams

• Sitler, liters, litres, relist, tilers, triels

Danish

Noun

lister c

1. indefinite plural of liste

Verb

lister

1. present of liste

French

Etymology

liste +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lis.te/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

lister

1. list (to create a list)

Conjugation

Conjugation of lister (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lister
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	listant /lis.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		listé /lis.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	liste /list/	listes /list/	liste /list/	listons /lis.tɔ̃/	listez /lis.te/	listent /list/
	imperfect	listais /lis.tɛ/	listais /lis.tɛ/	listait /lis.tɛ/	listions /lis.tjɔ̃/	listiez /lis.tje/	listaient /lis.tɛ/
	past historic2	listai /lis.te/	listas /lis.ta/	lista /lis.ta/	listâmes /lis.tam/	listâtes /lis.tat/	listèrent /lis.tɛʁ/
	future	listerai /lis.tə.ʁe/	listeras /lis.tə.ʁa/	listera /lis.tə.ʁa/	listerons /lis.tə.ʁɔ̃/	listerez /lis.tə.ʁe/	listeront /lis.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	listerais /lis.tə.ʁɛ/	listerais /lis.tə.ʁɛ/	listerait /lis.tə.ʁɛ/	listerions /lis.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	listeriez /lis.tə.ʁje/	listeraient /lis.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	liste /list/	listes /list/	liste /list/	listions /lis.tjɔ̃/	listiez /lis.tje/	listent /list/
	imperfect2	listasse /lis.tas/	listasses /lis.tas/	listât /lis.ta/	listassions /lis.ta.sjɔ̃/	listassiez /lis.ta.sje/	listassent /lis.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	liste /list/	—	listons /lis.tɔ̃/	listez /lis.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “lister”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• litres

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lister m or f

1. indefinite plural of liste

Verb

lister

1. present of liste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lister f

1. indefinite plural of liste

Swedish

Noun

lister

1. indefinite plural of list

Anagrams

• liters, sliter, steril